Plugin Settings before install

[Micko]

Hi,
first of all i'd like to thank you for this beautifull product.

I'm trying to develop a custom plugin - what I don't get is if it's possible to get user input before running the install process.

Let me explain a little bit better:
now, if I install a plugin all options inside settings.json file are editable after my jail has been brought up.

What I would like to do is add some plugin related inputs (at the same level where I choose DHCP settings for example) and give those values to my post_install script

Is it possible to do something like that?
thanks
Regards
Riccardo

 

[Kris Moore]

Riccardo,

Right now, its only possible to provide those additional configuration inputs after the initial installation is done. The initial plugin JSON manifest only contains the relevant information necessary to download + install the plugin and run the post_install.sh script. Good feature request for us though, perhaps something we can do on SCALE with Docker/K8's at some later point.

 

[Micko]

Hi Kris,
sorry to bother you again
So for what I understood the only way to edit plugin settings it to change them via
"iocage set -P" in freenas shell.
I found in old feature requests a post to reintroduce in the gui the ability to change them - but it has been closed.
is it on the roadmap right now? (https://redmine.ixsystems.com/issues/51180)

If is it ok for you I can open a new feature request - the idea is after pulling the git repo of the plugin, to parse the settings file - ask for user inputs and run the "serviceset" specified command for every parameter inserted.

As you can guess it would easily implemented if the plugin installation came from command line - however I really don't even know how to implement it in the gui :(

Thanks
Riccardo

 

[Kris Moore]

The plan is to eventually have this option on the GUI yes, however it'll probably be on TrueNAS SCALE initially, which uses Docker/Helm/K8's as its backend technologies vs iocage.

 

[Micko]

Thanks Kris! I didn't get that docker was going to replace iocage!
have a nice day

 

[Jurgen Segaert]

The feature request to make iocage plugins configurable via the WebGUI has been converted to a suggestion.
Vote at https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-106792 to show you're interested in this feature.